Objective:
The aim of this study is to examine the perspectives of nursing students
towards refugees in Turkey.
Methods: This is a descriptive and cross-sectional study. The sample was composed of 220 nursing
students. A 20-item questionnaire
prepared by literature-based researchers was used as a data collection tool.
Results: It
was found that 63.6% of the students who participated in the survey had a
female age of 19.69 ± 1.18, 45.5% had a middle income level, and 79.1% had a
social security. While 55.5% of the students have not communicated with the
refugees before, 92.3% of them have provided job opportunities to the refugees,
80.5% have empathized with the refugees, 27.3% of the family and relatives have
negative attitudes towards the refugees, whereas 24.5% 57.3% of the refugees
think that they should be helped if they ask for financial assistance, 59.1% of
them feel uncomfortable with the inclusion of the refugees, 82.3% 62.7% of the
refugees had information about their living conditions, 73.6% of the refugees
used health services as competently, 83.2% of them did not have any individual
problems related to refugees, 95% of the refugees returned to their countries
when the problem ended n that they should have been looking at education as
adverse to the rights granted to refugees 46.8% and 53.2% of refugees coming to
our country is found to meet the undecided.
Conclusion:
It was found that nursing students in general have positive opinions about
refugees in the framework of findings. It is proposed to plan initiatives for
situations where information deficiencies are unstable.
| Primary Language | English |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Health Care Administration |
| Journal Section | Articles |
| Authors | |
| Publication Date | December 25, 2018 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 1 Issue: 1 |